Women on the Road: The Suppressed Narrative of Serbian/Yugoslav Culture

Abstract

The paper points to the importance of the figure of the female traveller in the processes of shaping the feminist discourse in Serbian/Yugoslav culture at the start of the 20^th century. This is still an insufficiently researched and conceptualised figure of female activism, which encompasses the radical practice of acting in the context of patriarchal gender policy, because it is founded in internationalism, cosmopolitanism and nomadism. The focus of the research is on representative feminist projects and authors, the almanac Srpkinja (The Serbian Woman), the journal Jugoslovenska žena (The Yugoslav Woman), Zofka Kveder and Julka Hlapec Đorđević. Also, we will examine the literary work of women of that period from the perspective of female mobility, that is, travel as an emancipatory project, and point to important research potentials that this corpus of texts offers.